Sapphire Plug-ins for Open Fx: BlurChroma

S_BlurChroma

Separates the source into luminance and chrominance
components, blurs the chrominance and/or the luminance independently, and
recombines them. You can also scale the luma and chroma independently
to enhance or remove either.

In the Sapphire Blur+Sharpen effects submenu.

Inputs:

Source:
The clip to be processed.

Mask:
Optional.
If provided, the blur is only performed on regions of the
source clip specified by the bright areas of this input. Pixels
outside this mask are not blurred, and do not contribute to the
resulting blurred pixels within it. This input can be affected
using the Invert Mask, or Mask Use parameters.

Parameters:

Load Preset:
Push-button
.
Brings up the Preset Browser to browse all available presets for this effect.

Save Preset:
Push-button
.
Brings up the Preset Save dialog to save a preset for this effect.

Blur Mocha:
Default:
0,
Range:
0 or greater.
Blurs the Mocha Mask by this amount before using.
This can be used to soften the edges or quantization artifacts of
the mask, and smooth out the time displacements.

Mocha Opacity:
Default:
1,
Range:
0 to 1.
Controls the strength of the Mocha mask.
Lower values reduce the intensity of the effect.

Invert Mocha:
Check-box, Default:
off.
If enabled, the black and white of the Mocha Mask
are inverted before applying the effect.

Show Mocha Only:
Check-box, Default:
off.
Bypass the effect and show the Mocha Mask itself.

Combine Masks:
Popup menu, Default: Union
.
Determines how to combine the Mocha Mask and Input
Mask when both are supplied to the effect.

Union:
Uses the area covered by both masks together.

Intersect:
Uses the area that overlaps between the two masks.

Mocha Only:
Ignore the Input Mask and only use the
Mocha Mask.

Blur Chroma:
Default:
0.4,
Range:
0 or greater.
The amount to blur the chrominance. This parameter can be adjusted using the Blur Chroma Widget.

Blur Luminance:
Default:
0,
Range:
0 or greater.
The amount to blur the luminance. This parameter can be adjusted using the Blur Luminance Widget.

Blur Rel:
X & Y, Default:
[1 1],
Range:
0 or greater.
The relative horizontal and vertical blur
widths. Set Blur Rel X to 0 for a vertical-only blur, or set Blur
Rel Y to 0 for a horizontal-only blur. This parameter can be adjusted using the Blur Chroma Widget.

Scale Chroma:
Default:
1,
Range:
0 or greater.
Scales the chrominance by this amount. Increase for more
intense colors, decrease for muted colors.